🎉 Free while we launch. Every feature, every kid, no card.
Munchbox makes lunches simple. You add the foods you have at home, your kids tap what they want into a lunch tray, and the app gives them a checklist so they can pack it themselves. No more lunchtime madness.
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This is just a fun demo. In the real app you get to choose the foods your kids can pick from.
List the lunch foods you have at home. Your kids only ever see real options, so anything they pick is something you approve of.
Each kid taps foods into their own tray on the tablet: a main, a fruit, a veggie, and a snack.
The app turns their tray into a checklist. They grab the items from the fridge and pantry and pack the lunch themselves.
Foods, kids, and lunch history are stored on the tablet itself, not on a server. Your Google sign-in is just the key to the door. No ads and no tracking.
Hold the gear until a ring closes, then answer a multiplication question. Editing foods, settings, and backups all live behind it.
A tray needs a fruit or a veggie, and one treat is the limit. The Done button sleeps until the rule is met, then wakes up. Nothing ever turns red.
A slot machine that always lands on a complete lunch that follows the rules. Kids love pulling the lever, and it rescues mornings when picking feels hard.
After packing, kids can send you the finished lunch as a text message. They press send themselves, so there are no push notifications.
Munchbox does not count calories, score meals, or track streaks. It is a packing tool for kids, not a diet app aimed at them.
"I packed my whole lunch and Mom didn't even help. She just stood there."
EJ, age 10"Bummer it wouldn't let me pack 7 cookies."
MJ, age 8"The 7am lunch fight is just gone. She packs it while I finish my coffee."
KH, age 38"I like tapping the strawberries. That's all."
LB, age 7"My son ate the same lunch nine school days straight. He picked it, so he ate it."
DR, age 41"I added our foods once. Lunch has been their job ever since."
SM, age 36$0
For trying it out with your kids, not for every morning.
$18 per year
One school lunch pays for the whole year.
No credit card required at sign up • Cancel anytime
Right now, yes. Everything is free while we launch: every feature, every kid, no card on file. Down the road a paid plan will add extras like automatic cloud backup and syncing to a second device, and the core app will stay affordable for families. Launch families get plenty of notice before anything changes, and your data is always yours.
You sign in once with Google, so there is no new password to make or remember. One parent account covers the whole family, and kids never sign in to anything.
It is enough to find out whether your kids take to it. Brown Bag holds 10 foods, which covers a week or two of real lunches. Once it is part of your mornings, Bento unlocks the whole kitchen, every kid, and backup for $18 a year. That is one school lunch.
On the tablet, in the browser's own storage. Add the app to your home screen so that storage is protected, and save a backup file from the grown-up area once in a while. Bento does the backing up for you automatically.
Any modern browser, but it is designed for an iPad in landscape, propped up in the kitchen. Add it to the home screen and it opens full screen and works offline.
On an iPad or iPhone:
On Android, open it in Chrome, tap the ⋮ menu, then Add to home screen.
This step is worth the 20 seconds: Munchbox opens full screen like a regular app, works offline on flaky kitchen wifi, and the tablet treats your food list as protected data instead of a stale browser tab.
The grown-up area only opens after holding the gear for a moment and answering a multiplication question. And nothing behind it is destructive anyway. Foods are retired instead of deleted, so one tap brings anything back.
No. A tray needs a fruit or a veggie and can hold one treat at most. That is the whole rule. There are no points, no streaks, and no timers.
The app keeps working on the Brown Bag plan and your data stays yours. You can always read and export everything. Only the automatic backup and sync stop.